“How do we go forward recognizing that these people have a right, they’re going to get it, and we better get used to it.” – Ellis Henican The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has announced his intention to apply to the United Nations Security Council for full membership for a Palestinian state. The US may not…
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“The day summer called it quits”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, September17, 2011 Summer doesn’t end on Labor Day. Not most years, it doesn’t. It doesn’t pack up its pup tent with the first day of school, whatever the kiddies think. And summer almost never stops the day the calendar insists it does, Sept. 22 this year.…
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“The fight is really over the Independent voters and that’s why this district is worrisome to the President.”— Ellis Henican Republican Bob Turner won Anthony Weiner’s Congressional seat in a heavily Jewish populated district that has long been considered a stronghold of the Democratic party. Is this a sign of things to come in the…
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“Let’s don’t turn public school teachers into the scapegoats of all of our education problems.”— Ellis Henican President Obama says our kids can not do their best without state of the art schools. Why, then, are some people saying we should be spending less on our kids’ educations? Henican alone disagrees with the Varney &…
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“Wouldn’t (the U.S. banks’) argument be stronger if they hadn’t just led us down this dangerous path?” – Ellis Henican Ellis Henican, on Fox Business Channel’s “America’s Scoreboard”, reacts to Jamie Dimon, CEO of JP Morgan Chase, calling new international bank regulations “anti-American”. Didn’t the old rules allow the banks to almost bring down the United…
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“A day that will stay etched in our memory”, Ellis Henican Column, Newsday, September11, 2011 What is it about an anniversary? Some arbitrary date on a calendar. A point in distinct time commanding all of us: “Pay attention now.” Who needs mathematics to tell us when to mourn? Surely, there is no wrong day to remember…
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The simplest stories can be the most powerful ones: “The Bravest” by Tom Paxton http://tinyurl.com/pax911 “The first plane hit the other tower, right after I came in. It left a gaping, fiery hole where offices had been. We’d stood and watched in horror, as we saw the first ones fall, Then someone yelled “Get out,…
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FROM NEWSDAY 9/11/2001 8:00 pm – by Ellis Henican “A man ran up to us,” Stephen Craver said. “His whole face was peeling off. That’s how badly burned he was.” Craver, a gray-haired paramedic from St. Vincents Hospital and Medical Center, was already at the corner of Vesey and West streets when the first wave of…
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“We know that if the government goes and spends a trillion dollars on infrastructure programs – people will get back to work.”— Ellis Henican With the President set to speak to a joint session of Congress about jobs and the economy, Ellis Henican tells Stuart Varney that government spending creates jobs. Varney & Co., Fox Business Channel (September…
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